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Wireless Guide 79
8
Creating Local Agents for
Wireless LAN Adapters
Overview
This chapter describes how to create a local agent in the Sniffer software to
use the wireless LAN adapter installed in the previous chapters.
Creating a Local Agent to Use the Wireless LAN
Adapter
Before you can use the Sniffer software to capture from a wireless network,
you need to define a local agent that will use the wireless LAN adapter you
installed in the previous chapters. The following procedure explains how.
To define a new local agent to work with the wireless LAN adapter:
1 Start the Sniffer software.
2 Go to Files > Select Settings to open the Settings dialog box opens.
It lists the local agents that have already been defined for machine with
the Sniffer software installed.
3 Click New to define a new local agent to work with the wireless LAN
adapter.
4 In the New Settings dialog box, use the Description field to supply a
descriptive name for this local agent. Your description will appear in
future instances of the Settings dialog box. For example, you may want
to choose something like Wireless LAN Analyzer.
5 Select the wireless adapter to use for this local agent from the Network
Adapter drop-down list. The list includes all NDIS 3.1 compliant
adapters currently installed.
NOTE: If the wireless adapter does not appear in the drop-down list,
ensure that the Sniffer Driver is bound to the network card you
installed in the previous chapters.
For Windows XP and NT, you can do this on the Bindings tab of the
Network control panel.
For Windows 2000, you can do this by starting the Network control